Blog by Daily Mountain
Every year in the spring, hundreds of aspiring Everest climbers from all over the world arrive in Nepal, hoping to conquer the mountain.
In the spring of 2010, Pemba Gelje Sherpa crossed the dreaded Khumbu Icefall 14 times. The Icefall is the most treacherous part of the Khumbu glacier, fast-moving and ridden with crevas...
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On a cold, gray afternoon, a man reaches a mountaintop and dissolves in jubilation, as if a boy, not 55, those bright, blue eyes twinkling on a hard-lined face. He’s giggling and congratulating his canine companion: “That’s my girl! That’s my girl, Chaela!”
The black lab’s tail wags, and her pink tongue hangs as “Cap” Da...
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Are you curious about what Olympic climbing will look like in 2020? We are, too. Heres what you should know before it all begins.
In 2016, the International Olympic Committee voted to include climbing in the 2020 Olympics. But when it announced that it would combine the three main forms of competitive climbing—speed, bou...
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Ash Routen discusses with Reinhold Messner, arguably the greatest high altitude climber of all time, success versus failure, the difference between suffering and fun, and the powerful sense of history that has underpinned his mountaineering philosophy.
As I dial the number, I draw a sharp intake of breath. Im hoping to m...
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What will it take to establish a new, highly technical and extremely difficult line on Everest’s northeast face?
Between the two of them, Cory Richards and Esteban “Topo” Mena have stood below the northeast face of Mount Everest six separate times. On all of those prior trips, one couloir, a snowy scar splitting the dark...
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Some couples worry about how to manage a week apart on business trips. Emily Harrington and Adrian Ballinger - among the top rock climbers and mountaineers, respectively - worry about how to spend months several thousand miles apart while they both make potentially life-threatening attempts at groundbreaking physical feats ...
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Husband-and-wife mountaineering team Romano Benet and Nives Meroi were attempting a winter ascent of the worlds fifth-highest mountain, Makalu, when things went badly wrong. It was the first of two serious challenges that could have brought their climbing careers, and even their lives, to an end.
The biggest problem on M...
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Blog by Pradip Tamang
The Everest Base Camp trek, a very world famous mountain trek, starts after 35 minutes of scenic flight from Kathmandu to Lukla. We follow the Dudh Kosi River valley which climbs up to the Sherpa capital of Namche, a bustling market that is a junction for trekkers, the local Sherpa and Expeditions en route to the mighty Mt....
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Blog by Mountain Planet
The Mountain Planet project invites its followers to dive deep into the sea of mountains and get interesting information via cute images and graphs.
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7 570 meters is Gangkar Punsum - the highest unclimbed mountain which is situated in Bhutan. Its also the 40th highest peak in the world;
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Blog by Trekking News
A short drive from Marrakech lies a heavenly retreat, stunning views and . . . tough climbs
The heart of a walnut is a delicious, nutritious and surprisingly beauteous thing. Such are my musings on a trekking tour of the High Atlas Mountains where, in the midday heat, I value the shade of the walnut trees on the arid re...
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